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Relationship Between Evaluation
Instruments and Objectives
General Objective: Learners will become familiar with a variety
of evaluation instruments
Specific Learning Objectives: Learners will be able to describe
the relationship between objectives and evaluation.
Content
We have identified a number of evaluation instruments and classified
them in various ways,. Now we need to examine the relationships
between objectives and evaluation. Lets begin by examining the
cul-de-sac diagram.
Once again, the cul-de-sac metaphor suggests that it does matter
where you start and that it does not matter which direction you
go.
The verb written in the objective will indicate how it will be
taught and how it will be evaluated. The rest of the objective
dictates the content that will be taught. Let us examine one
objective and determine how it dictates how the learners will
be evaluated. We have already examined this objective from the
instructional strategies that could be planned.
Objective: Learners will be able to use the four-step approach
to writing business letters. (The verb is use. and it
answers the How question. The content is business
letters and it answers the What question.
Use is listed in Bloom's Taxonomy at an application level.
Therefore the instructor is responsible for teaching about the
four-steps for writing business letters. (knowledge) This might
be delivered by a lecture by the instructor.
To evaluate this objective, students must be able to use the four-steps
to write business letters; therefore, students must complete an
assignment or test that requires them to write one or more business
letters using the four steps. The assignment or test question
will likely require the students to indicate the four steps.
It does not matter if the strategies and content are planned first
or the evaluation instrument is planned first. The planning is
centered around the specific learning objective that is written
in the course outline. The course specific learning objective
may be broken down into several smaller parts and more specific
learning objectives that are taught in one or more lessons.
All three component (objective, content and teaching strategy,
and evaluation) must be reflected in each other.
Activity
In a paragraph describe the relationship between lesson objectives
and evaluation.
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